Family Portraits Commission Information
This is a lovely painting Nick completed in October 2011 for our client David to give as a surprise to his family at christmas. The painting is an oil on linen 24 x 18 of his wife and their three dogs. I have added the stages of the portrait, the final scan, the photos Nick used when painting below for you to view. We have also added a photo of the portrait framed too. It was framed with the traditional wood frame which you can find in our framing section along with an inner linen slip. I hope you enjoy this page of information and if you would like to commission us to paint your pet don't hesitate to email us at any time.
The Family Portrait in Progress
We try to make sure we take a number of photos of the portrait during the day and display them on our portraits in progress blog for our clients to see. We have daylight easel lamps which allow us to see the painting in pure natural light, and sometimes this lighting effect the photos that we take. This can account for colour differences between each stage and the final scan below. 
The Oil Painting with Detail
We scan the majority of our artwork here in the studio, we have an epson scanner, or for the very large paintings we take photographs of the artwork using a Sony DSLR camera, a tripod and two diffused photography lights. Our scans and photographs are always perfect quality if clients require giclee prints of their hand painted portrait for friends or family.
Client Family Portraits Reference Photos
Our clients email a range of photographs for us to work with, we use one for the main pose of the portrait and others for detail, backgrounds etc The photographs depicted below may vary in colour to the finished painting above. This can be due to the scanned oil painting being slightly different to the original or often clients give us more than one photo to work from i.e. one for the pose and another for colouring.
Client Comments and Feedback
We are always thrilled to read our clients emails, we are in touch with clients via email and sometimes via telephone, skype and texts throughout the entire process. Clients also leave us messages on our portraits in progress blog when they are watching their portrait in progress and also comment on our facebook page too. We try to add snippets of their emails here for you to read, plus you can see more photos of happy clients with the portraits in our client feedback section too.
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Hi Melanie and Nick,
Thank you so much, I am sure my family will be delighted.
Best wishes
David Baker
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Melanie
The Eagle Has Landed!!-----My neighbour advises that the parcel arrived safely on thursday.We can now leave unopened until I collect on Xmas Eve.
Thank you so much.I will let you know after Christmas what the reaction from all is--know it will be great and,for an old guy,am getting excited over this parcel opening session.
Happy Christmas to you both and again with my sincere thanks
David
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Melanie & Nick,
I am writing to express my most sincere thanks for the wonderful portrait that you have completed for me--I was totally speechless when I saw it,especially as I had absolutely no idea what was planned,and then I guess,quite emotional.It is just perfect--thank you so very much. My family all love it too and I assure you that it will now be very much a family treasure.
Thank you both so much and for all the advice that I am sure you gave to David--incidentally I think the frame,which I believe he was a touch worried about,is so right for the painting.
With vey best wishes for 2012 and again my thanks Barbara Baker |
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Final Result - The Family Portrait Framed
We provide our clients with a full bespoke framing service, our local framer Jane can supply frames to suit most home decors and tastes. Clients can alternatively have their portrait framer locally to the - or hang their portrait unframed. You can view larger images of our framed portraits in our framing section.
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